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these diseases than there are of rabies, giandej"s and bovine 

 tuberculosis, and while the expense of dealing with them is 

 proportionately less than with tuberculosis, these outbreaks 

 are nevertheless of considerable economic importance, and 

 some of them may be a menace to public health. 



Among the miscellaneous diseases are actinomycosis, hog 

 cholera and allied troubles, symptomatic anthrax or blackleg, 

 anthrax, Texas fever, and tuberculosis in other animals than 

 cattle. 



There are among animals other communicable diseases over 

 which the Chief of the Cattle Bureau has no jurisdiction, be- 

 cause they are not among those classified in the statutes as 

 contagious, such as mange among horses and cattle. 



The law should be amended so as to allow the Chief of the 

 Cattle Bureau to take proper measures for the control and 

 eradication of any disease of a communicable character that 

 appears among our domestic animals. For example, several 

 cases of mange among cattle have been reported during the 

 year; herds in which this disease appears should be quaran- 

 tined, in order to prevent the trouble from spreading to other 

 farms, and owners directed to take proper steps for treating 

 infected animals and disinfecting their premises. Mange 

 among horses is a similar disease, over which the Chief of the 

 Cattle Bureau should be given some control. 



There has been very little disease that can be grouped under 

 the generic term of hog cholera ; only 14 outbreaks have oc- 

 curred, and most of these were early in the year. 'No new 

 cases of diseases of this kind have been reported during the 

 past autumn or this winter, and the quarantines have been 

 raised from premises where swine were found diseased early 

 last year, as the disease subsided and the premises were disin- 

 fected. 



Occasionally a case of tuberculosis in a pig is reported 

 before the animal is killed, but most of these cases are found 

 post mortem, when the swine are killed for food. 



A case of tuberculosis occurred in a horse which died in 

 Cambridge and was taken to the Brighton Abattoir. It was 

 reported to the Cattle Bureau, and an agent went to see it and 



